With a birthday following my renewed interest in r/c power boats, my wife Sue bought me this Pursuit for my birthday present that year.

The boat came with a brushless motor factory fitted but needed an ESC and r/c system with a good (powerful and fast metal geared) steering servo to be fitted.

I ran this boat quite a lot on 4C LiPo batteries (as specified) and it does run very nicely….. fast, and surprisingly smoothly too.

I stripped and greased the flexi-drive after every session at the lake, but this was nothing like as easy or fast as working on the Alpha 1000 or the Inception as the alloy rear out-drive assembly needed to be partially stripped and reassembled every time to access the drive cable.

Also unlike the Alpha 1000 and Inception, this boat had a glass fibre hull (the other two are injection moulded plastic) and although stronger and more easily repairable in the event of a crash, its outer surface was more prone to cracking or chipping.

Overall , an excellent boat, but current prices make it quite an expensive choice.

Bob.